Caffaro v. Trayna’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Inclusion of the cause for wrongful death will not significantly expand the scope of proof or the relevant legal considerations on the issue of liability. The amendment will, of course, introduce new aspects on the issue of damages, but defendant does not suggest how the fail ure to bring this cause within two years after the decedent’s death has prejudiced him in the assembly or introduction of evidence in support of his defense as to such additional elements of damage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Knauer v. Johns-Manville Corp.

2. “only unfairness to defendant or inescapable statutory mandate should foreclose assertion of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State

3. “within two years after the decedent's death”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State